Sports

Guyana’s leading female football referee Diane Ferreira-James is Beijing bound following her appointment by FIFA, football’s world governing body to officiate at the forthcoming Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

By Calvin Roberts Pakistan maintained their status as the only unbeaten team in the CLICO under-15 international cricket tournament when they inflicted an eight-wicket defeat on Malaysia in their final Group 2 matche at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, yesterday.

Ian Gouveia with a 15 handicap scored a net 39 to win last weekend’s Stabroek News’s Full Handicap Stableford Golf tournament played at the Lusignan Golf course.

By Calvin Roberts The various prize winners in the second annual Guyana Football Federation (GFF)/Pepsi Inter-Association Under-17 football tournament including defending champions Upper Demerara Football Association received their spoils at a simple presentation ceremony held in the boardroom of the GFF yesterday.

By Calvin Roberts Fourteen-year-old cycling sensation Neil Reece of Flying Ace Cycle Club turned in some creditable performances recently in Trinidad and Tobago at the Beacon Cycling championships which featured the West Indies versus The Rest of the World Cycling Series.

By Calvin Roberts Thanks to Ansa Mc Al Limited, Sweet16 football now has a new home.

There were wins for the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and Pele Football Club respectively when action in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) 2008 Cellink Plus-sponsored Premier League competition continued at the Tucville ground on Sunday.

The junior selectors of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has called 32 players to trials for possible selection to represent Guyana at this year’s regional Under 19 tournament which is scheduled to be held in Barbados.

By Kizan Brumell It was an all Berbice final yesterday and Young Warriors proved to Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar that they were the superior team defeating them by 25 runs to become the inaugural champions of the Noble House-sponsored Malteenoes Sports Club Invitational Twenty20 Knockout Tournament.

(Tony Cozier argues that advent of the IPL has thrown the future direction of cricket into confusion) By Tony Cozier In MUMBAI It will become the biggest sport on the planet in 10 years, supplanting even football, Sir Allen Stanford proclaimed last week.

By Calvin Roberts Like Pakistan the previous day, Malaysia completely dominated Holland sending them to a nine-wicket defeat in their second round clash of the CLICO International Under-15 Cricket Championships at the National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Pakistan beat Americas Development XI in their second round, CLICO International Under-15 Championship league match at Bourda yesterday.

By Kizan Brumell A day of exciting events it was as the AmateurAthleticAssociation of Guyana ran off its fourth President’s Invitational Grand Prix meet at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary yesterday.

By Kiev Chesney Hospitality must have been the last thing on the minds the Georgetown (GT ) Pioneers last Saturday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall when they blew away the Guyana United States Basketball Affiliates (GUBA) Rockers by 21 points in the first exhibition game of their Goodwill Tour. 

Rajasthan Royals continued to surge up the points table by beating Bangalore Royal Challengers comprehensively by seven wickets at the Chinnaswamy Stadium yesterday to draw level with the Chennai Super Kings with three wins each.

By Calvin Roberts Buoyed by their two run win over West Indies in the knockout phase of this competition along with a man of the match performance from Zafar Gohar, Pakistan on the back of a 105 run first wicket partnership between captain Muhammad Babar (51) and Muhammed Nadeem (90) scored 332-5 in their 50 overs then bowled out Holland for 102 to win their opening game in the league competition of the CLICO sponsored International Under-15 cricket tournament by a whopping 229 at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

The athletes and officials of the three sports disciplines are ready for take-off in the first stage of the 2008 Inter-Guiana Games which will be held from May 1-4 in Suriname.

Guyana’s rifle shooters, the reigning Caribbean short range champions departed the country yesterday to compete in the regional Rifle shooting championships billed for next week in Kingston, Jamaica .

– Camptown/Alpha United play to stalemate Fruta Conquerors slammed three unanswered goals past the Georgetown Football Club while Sunburst Camptown and Alpha United played to a 3-3 draw when the Guyana Football Assoc-iation’s Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) Cellink Plus Premier League competition continued on Friday at the Tucville ground.

-Mike, James Brusche, Shelly Hubbard here to give back to basketball By Kiev Chesney The Guyana United States Basketball Affiliates (GUBA) in collaboration with the Haynes Basketball Found-ation on Thursday launched the US/Guyana Goodwill Tour which commenced last night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.